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Pick 5 · draw · evening

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

eveningPick 5

Single source
  1. 0
  2. 0
  3. 2
  4. 5
  5. 7

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/9 · since Sep 2012draw 970 of 7,280 under them

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Also drawn that day

  • midday
    1. 1
    2. 1
    3. 3
    4. 4
    5. 4

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:51 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed0 0 2 5 729 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum0th
  • odd30th
  • low95th
  • widest gap46th
  • neighbours1th
  • spread38th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 485 of each

0497times
0497times
2508times
5452times
7

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492times

Every number was expected about that many times after 969 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.

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Its nearest twin

This exact draw has happened before, on 18 June 2016. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 August 2016): 2, 5 carried over. Chance says 100% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

14

The numbers add up to 14 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 23. No two numbers side by side. 98% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

0 had not appeared for 4 draws. A number waits about 2 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 0% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

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